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The passenger who was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago because it was overbooked and staff members needed to take up four seats can be revealed as David Dao. Footage of the Vietnamese-American being hauled off the overbooked flight at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Sunday caused outrage on Monday. Dao (left, on the plane, and right, with his wife and granddaughter) was heard in videos captured of his shocking eviction saying he needed to get home to Louisville so he could see patients of his. DailyMail.com can reveal Dr Dao is a father of five and a grandfather, who specializes in internal medicine. Four of his five children are doctors. His wife Teresa, 69, is a pediatrican who trained at Ho Chi Minh University in Saigon and also practices in Elizabethtown, Kentucky - about 40 miles south of Louisville. His identity has been revealed after United CEO Oscar Munoz doubled down on his airline crew's decision to remove an elderly passenger, claiming he was 'disruptive and belligerent'.